What is this site all about?

Well this is predominantly a travel blog website as we think it is possible for us to go to every country in the world within our life time and we really just wanted to share it with all our mates. Since it’s inception, we seemed to have developed a bit of a following out there in internet land, so hopefully we’ll definitely make all the countries in the world before we die!

We are well on the way there as we have 62 countries or 28% of the World’s countries under our belt and we have just finished a 2 year world trip in 2007 having already done a 1 year world trip in 1998.

We try and avoid boring travel story stuff like “we went here and we saw this…” and instead we prefer lots of bum and fart jokes and a geeks perspective on travelling around the world.

Most of our travelling is to places that are harder to get to, and the countries we go to are usually chosen on their cool factor, or if they have any interesting unexplained Archaeology since Ced loves unsolved mysteries.

We aim to do an international trip every year so stay tuned to the site or get an RSS feed to us if you want to follow our adventures.

Who are we?

We’re a couple of Australian desk jockies in our early 40′s who enjoy making our friends jealous with all the funky places we travel to. Ced is a struggling cartoonist/comic artist with plans to write and draw a graphic novel and who is responsible for the artwork and writing on this blog, but for now he is moonlighting as a GP doctor in Brisbane. Avril is in web design but really plans on being a glass bead artist and you can see her artwork at http://www.heartofglass.com.au/

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No… Who are you really?

OK… We are Red Fury (Avril), Black Mantis (Ced), and Grey Claw (Puddles)… We fight crime with our huge list of superpowers and bust new arseholes on stupid people. And we ROCK!!! Kitson is our baby girl who is yet to show her mutant superpowers.

 

 

What do you like?
Funky Lounge Music, Comics, Martial Arts Movies, Exotic Food, Cats and Kittens, Breakdance & Funky Breakbeat, Retro 80s and 90′s music, Travel, Rockclimbing, Computer Games, Bubble Wrap, Fluffy Things, Toys and Action Figures, Archaeology.

What do you hate?
Cigarette smoke, People who don’t swing their arms when they walk, Body Odour, Rude Inconsiderate People, Package Tourists, Mainstream music, Cold Toilet Seats, Cold Showers, People who don’t wipe their arse properly, Dumb People, Touts.

Where have we been?

For our country list of where we have been, you can click here.

Our first trip together was to Thailand for a month in 1996. We travelled around the north for 2 weeks, then the south for 2 more. This is when we first got infected with the travel bug.

We always talked about a bigger trip, a trip that would see us leave home for a long time. Finally, in early 1997, we decided on a date for this big trip, January 1998. We worked our arses off for the all important money that was needed to fund this extravagant trip which was to be called CED & AVRIL’S BIGARSED ADVENTURE… A trip that saw us travel for one year without working. A trip that got us to all seven continents in the world including Antartica. We pretty much went from Antarctica to Vancouver overland and then across the USA overland. The most excellent trip ever took us to: New Zealand, Antarctica, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicuragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, United States of America, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Egypt, Hong Kong, then back home to Australia. An unforgettable trip.

This was also the trip that we started blogging about even before the word “blog” existed!!!

In 2002, we were dying to get overseas again. We wanted another challenge. We decided on a 6 week holiday, trekking in Nepal from Jiri on the old route walked by Hiliary through rebel territory to the Mt Everest base camp, then over to the Gokyo Valley. We would fly out from Namche Bazaar back to Kathmandu for a few days before heading out to Singapore for some rest, relaxation and food. That trip was lovingly called Cedavril Vs Everest Base Camp – How Much Can a Kat Man Do?

That trip was friggin hard and knackered us and we lost alot of weight. So we fattened ourselves up again, and by 2004, we were ready to shed those kilos. We took five weeks off to go back to Thailand and to also visit Cambodia in a trip called Cedavril Tombraiding In Cambodia. We traipsed in a circle from Bangkok, to Siem Reap, to Phnom Penh, then to southern Cambodia to the beaches, then back into Thailand to visit more beaches and islands, then back to Bangkok. The trip finished with a week in Hong Kong for some serious shopping.

In 2005-2007 we decided that we would go and live and work in Ireland as a base to do Europe and Africa for 2 years and it was a HUGE trip and affectionately entitled CED & AVRIL’S BIGARSED ADVENTURE RELOADED!!! We started off going back to South America and doing Brazil, the Galapagos, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua and Cuba over 3 months and then settling in Ireland where we pretty much did every country in Western Europe, Iceland, Tunisia, Quebec, Turkey and even managed to get to the World Cup in Germany. We finished up in West Africa doing Mali and the amazing Festival Au Desert, Burkina Faso and Ghana, which made it 28 new countries.

However, my grandmother ended up getting a brain tumour so we headed home early and cancelled our East Africa trip and our plans to go home via the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Ced was really depressed coming back as we really didn’t finish our trip on high, so in early 2008 we started Cedavril’s Bigarsed Adventure RESURRECTED!!! and we headed back to Africa to Ethiopia, Tanzania and Rwanda before shooting up to Poland to catch up with our friend JC. Avril then headed to Murano in Venice to do a glass beading course and Ced bummed around Eastern Europe with mates to bring our country count to 60.

2009 was a fairly domestic year with a snowboarding trip to New Zealand where unfortunately Avril broke her arm and Ced managed to do some trekking in Tasmania.

In 2010… Holy Cow… we fell pregnant!!! Yoiks!!! And that of course meant we needed a holiday so we first went to swim with whale sharks in Western Australia and then we headed off for 5 weeks to Palau in the South Pacific to swim with Jelly fish after watching Survivor Palau and then off to Japan to check out glass and big robots. That trip was called Cedavril Vs Jelly Fish In Palau and Big Robots In Japan.

Our baby girl Kitson was born in 2011 and that meant that we needed to see whether she had our travel superpowers and so in Jan 2012 we headed to Vietnam and Hong Kong for a 4 week backpacking trip with a baby. Our travel blog officially now changed to Ced Avril & Kitson’s Bigarsed Adventure. Unfortunately our cat Puddles the Grey Claw and defender of our secret headquarters when we are off fighting crime also died that year at age 18.

Where are we going now?

Shit we have no idea where to go this year but although Kitson travelled well, it was pretty hard work. Chances are this year will be more of Asia and the South Pacific and perhaps another snow trip.

What’s on the list?

Shit being parents could certainly cramp our style for a few years but I’m still dead keen on getting to every country in the world still… so our to do list for the next few years is China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Eastern Russia. Just recently, I’m starting to get interested in Central Asia around the Silk Road as well.

So stay tuned…